Reading about textiles is a good way to learn more about the apparel
industry. Although textiles are used in many different industries,
one of the most important would be the garment business. Textiles
have an assortment of uses but the most common of which are for
clothing. Fashion designers commonly rely on textile designs
to set their fashion collections apart from others

A textile or cloth is a flexible material consisting of a network
of natural or artificial fibres (yarn or thread). Yarn is
produced by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, or other
material to produce long strands. Textiles are formed by weaving,
knitting, crocheting, knotting, or felting.

About Weaving & Knitting: Weaving is a textile production
method which involves interlacing a set of longer threads (called
the warp) with a set of crossing threads (called the weft). This
is done on a frame or machine known as a loom, of which there are
a number of types. Some weaving is still done by hand, but the vast
majority is mechanized. Knitting and crocheting involve interlacing
loops of yarn, which are formed either on a knitting needle or on
a crochet hook, together in a line. The two processes are different
in that knitting has several active loops at one time, on the knitting
needle waiting to interlock with another loop, while crocheting
never has more than one active loop on the needle.